Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-12-13
CRUEL WASTE OF WAR.
LOSSES WHICH OCCUR THROUGH lG-
NoRANCe- AND NEGLIGENCE.


Wars Three Sorts of Circumstances-rhe
.,.rcb. the Camp aud the Battle--Na-
poieon's Deiinition--Value OF the March
ing Power Of Armies,
II is n well known fact that for the first
three wears of the war of the rebellion there
were more lives lost and property destroyed
from mere ignorance, and negligence as re-
suit OF Ignorance, than from any other canse'
officers of volunteers who had no knoWledSe
of military duties had, at the beginning,
large responsibilities thrust upon them, me
object of all military training should be TO
prepare men for war Drill. as means OF
teaching discipline, as well rs preliminary
field movements, can be taught anywhere
at home in the school, the workshop or count
inp bouse. But the underlying elements on
which the art of war is founded, upon which
the stability of all government rests, can be
earned only by practical experience, And
ibis is the experience the NATIONAL guard
wants. In time of war the guard Will be-
.ome the regular army, and the volunteers
che reserve The small regular army Will be
only sufficient to furnish high grade COM
manders and instructors for the vast army of
the people. Now, war is the time for the APP
plication of teachings and principles, rather
than tire learning Of them.
WARS THREE CIRCUMSTANCES.
All circumstances of war must be COM
prised under three heads: u the march, GU
the camp, 60 the battle The first and second
L.. int of hur
only the second is practiced The most neces-
sary and important of all is neglected by the
national guard, except in one or two in
stances as the march of the Twenty
New York to Peekskill When all the circum-
stances of this march are known it cannot be
too highly recommended. 1t is an example
to be followed by all the national guard,
which will benefit it to a greater extent than
years of drill and camp.
Napoleon defined the tart of war to be the
tart of separating to subsist and concentrat-
ing to fight and never before or since has
the great science been so clearly and tersely
enumerated But this art of separating and
concentrating successfully depends upon the
marching power of armies Students of the
military profession ponder over questions of
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